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Free and reliable
The Hiking Project gets the job done. It’s simple, completely free to use, and provides detailed trail info (more detailed for more popular trails of course). You can download entire regions for offline use (for FREE). The downside is that it doesn’t have all the trails a certain paid app does but I much prefer The Hiking Project for not hounding me to pay for a subscription. They are also strict about what trails are added (understandably so) and similarly slow to allow corrections of inaccurate trail maps but I’ve only had one trail that was inaccurate in all my time using the app.Show lessG00dTrouble
Has bugs, still the best
Certainly the best hiking app because of its downloadable maps and ease of seeing all the hikes in an area quickly.
However, Multiple times when I have tried to add content by recording a hike, the app freezes, begins crashing seconds after I open it, and the only way to recover it is delete the app from my phone and re-download it. Pretty annoying, even dangerous, when I was using it for navigation in the Alaskan wilderness where there was no service.Show lessKev264367543
Great for travellers and hikers in the USA
I’m from the UK, and to be honest the hiking community hasn’t really taken up the mantle yet and most of the trails I know at home are notably absent. I’ve been living in the US for 2 years, and exploring the national parks, monuments, and forests. This app has been the critical piece of the puzzle that has helped me plan trips, and feel confident about where to go and what gear to take. It’s also been a great bail out option, because downloading the maps means that I know my location and if I’ve lost the trail. As a solo hiker on unfamiliar trails, this has been invaluable more than once.
I recommend this app to everyone. It’s brilliant. And free.Show lessmdb08ar
Fantastic app, but still needs tweaking
I have used this app extensively in my travels around the US to find great hiking trails. And I love it!
But I just discovered a local trail incorrectly showing up for hiking when it is in fact dedicated for Mountain Biking. As such it would be dangerous to hike there for both the hiker and bikers. But, there was no option I could find in the app to report this error, other than the “trail condition” report. Go ahead and use the app, but pay attention to the local signs and alternate online info before going!Show lessEricRoi
Great app, with one big caveat
I have used this app for years, all over the US. It's great for finding trails, seeing photos of them, reading descriptions, and so on. It's been a huge help to planning many vacations.
There is one "but."
In my experience this app consistently under-reports trail distances, often significantly. This week, for example, a hike in the Grand Canyon that the app lists as 2.9 miles registered as 4.1 as-hiked for me with a GPS tracker, and a hike in Sedona that the app lists as 5.4 miles registered as a 7.8 as-hiked for me with a GPS tracker.
Those may not seem like big differences, and in absolute terms maybe they're not. But they're each off by more than 40%.
These two examples were not a problem for me, but if you're hiking a challenging trail on the edge of your experience level, or hiking in bad weather, or fighting darkness, the trail turning out to be 40% long than expected is bad, bad news, and a legitimate safety issue. Forty extra percent turns a ten-mile hike into a 14-mile hike, and a 20-mile hike into a 28-mile hike.
My advice: use this app, but build in a significant buffer on the distance.Show lessjeffreynye
Love the app but missing some key features!
I love this app and think the Hiking Project is better as whole compared to other hiking apps but it is missing some key features that are available on the website which keep it from being the best.
I wish we could upload our trails, photos, or comments about hikes through the app since you are able to do these things in almost every other hiking app. Seeing other people’s comments about their hikes would also be super helpful since they could provide some relevant recent information about the trail. I don’t like having to use the website (or other hiking apps) just to have these functions.Show lessSpence871
Search not working?
Most everything about this app is amazing, and I still recommend it to my friends despite my one problem. Every time, and I mean EVERY time I try to search for a trail it tells me a message saying there’s a search error. I have to go into google maps and then try to sync it with the project app, and it’s a whole thing. Once you find the trail on another app then it works but it should be all inclusive. This app has literally saved my roommate and mine’s live’s one time and I still trust the gps pointer because of it. It is a pain to have to sync up the two apps though. I will continue to use it but there are some major bugs that need to be fixed.Show lesssmiggy91
Life saver!!!
I went on a backpacking trip to Santa Rosa Island in the Channel Islands National Park. The plan was to camp at Johnson point, bit off way more than we can chew. So as we realized that completing the trek was isn’t in the cards I tried AllTrails but nothing I remembered about this app cause REI was out of physical maps. I opened it up as boom a couple of tiny barely visible trails, so after navigating about 5 trail junctions I got a glimmer of hope and saw the ocean(small dot of blue). After that enjoyed 3 days of seeing absolutely nobody on my beach and it wouldn’t happen without this appShow lessRickstov
Awesome, but...
So we’re old farts that love to hike easy to moderate trails. Very intuitive app to filter and find those, BUT many you need to be parachuted into the middle of the wilderness to get to! It’s funny to see little 1 mile easy jaunts the start and end on 17 mile intermediate hikes that themselves are a journey. I’m sure there is an “easy” stretch on Mt. Everest if someone just labeled a start and stop and gave it a name.
In spite of that little “flaw,” this is a great app to find those hidden gems that are accessible. Look forward to exploring. Meanwhile, all you young, fit folk can trek those easy hikes on your journey across the Appalachian Trail.Show lessEpheumsirc
Not enough Canadian trails
It’s really hard to find an app that actually has a substantial amount of Canadian trails.Toastinna
